Sunday, February 22, 2004

What underlies everything? What holds? The noodling here all comes about upon a reading of In the River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks in The New York Review of Books. This is sort of a review of an absurd number [9] of books where Sacks, after many years work, states that it is not just perceptual moments but moments of an essentially personal kind that are the essential atom of being. Along the way Harvey Pekar and American Splendor, and this very Weblog come in for consideration. Related In the River of Consciousness - NYRB, Jan 4, 2004 American Splendor on Amazon.com 7:45:36 PM    comment []

Pound and Adams Among the nation's Founding Fathers, John Adams is one of those least likely to be called an icon. No 50-dollar bill or 10-dollar bill, no quarter or nickel now bears his visage. Despite the popular work of historian David McCullough, ensuing national attention, and an increase in visitors to the Adams' Quincy homestead, Adams still lags in an icon sweepstakes dominated by Franklin, Washington and Jefferson. Related Pound makes the Library of America - Boston Phoenix, Jan 2, 2004 Poems and Translations -Amazon Unrelated The annotated St Stephen -UCSC McCullough's Adams on Amazon 6:12:37 PM    comment []

Johnny too bad Little friend wont see another winter Little cat wont climb all through the snow Poor buddy won't chase the birds of springtime Time it comes and it is time to go {More} A few friends found themselves being separated from thier cats of late, and I found this poem in the filing cabinet.   6:03:40 PM    comment []

Test Webcast on RFID Requires Flash Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will rip through retail and merchandising IT operations like an invading army. Or, RFID will simmer on the back burner - and flame out after some modest improvements in bar-code scanning appear. I recently recast a column on the topic of RFID as a Flash presentation. It is a 699K download but seems to work fairly well even under the least robust Internet connections. I used PPT and RoboFlash to make it, so I havent' really learned Flash. But it seems to have a lot of potential as a communications mechanism. Hope to improve quality of presentation later this week. This is only a test.  Click to access Test Webcast Unrelated Scientists Accuse White House of Distorting Facts -NYT [Reg Req], Feb 18, 2004 Pollution Is Blamed for Thinner Air at Edge of Atmosphere - NYT, Feb 10, 2004 Proposed Boston BioTerrorism lab sparks debate - NYT, Feb 10, 2004 Mineshaft gains Horse of Year honors - ESPN Feb 4, 2004 Memory mechanism breakthrough at MIT - Medical News Today, Feb 4, 2004   5:56:28 PM    comment []

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